{"id":31601,"date":"2023-01-27T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31601"},"modified":"2023-01-27T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:40:20","slug":"matri-phony-1942-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31601","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Matri-Phony&#8221; (1942) starring The Three Stooges \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z012723zview_matriphony.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Matri-Phony <\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Harry Edwards, Del Lord <\/strong>(uncredited)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:<strong> Monte Collins, Elwood Ullman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Vernon Dent, Bobby Barber, Cy Schindell<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Max Wagner<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Goofiest comedy you ever saw!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a woman on the run enters the boy&#8217;s Ye Olde Pottery shop they learn that Emperor Grabus plans to marry her against her will.\u00a0 The boys help her hide.\u00a0 When she is discovered they are taken into custody.\u00a0 Grabus condemns the boys and moves forward with his marriage plans.\u00a0 The boys must escape and save the young lass.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Matri-Phony\u00a0<\/em>was plagued with problems, most of which were caused by the director, Harry Edwards.\u00a0 Most Stooges shorts were filmed in 3 to 5 days.\u00a0 <em>Matri-Phony<\/em> took three weeks to complete.\u00a0 Edwards was abusive towards the actors and crew.\u00a0 Reshoots were needed.\u00a0 Some shots are out of focus, some scenes lacked coverage for smooth edits.\u00a0 The Stooges worked with him on one other short and then asked to never have him direct them again.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight is an extended scene with Curly in drag and chased around the room by the nearly blind Emperor Grabus!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Matri-Phony<\/em> <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z012723zview_matriphony2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matri-Phony (1942) Director:\u00a0 Harry Edwards, Del Lord (uncredited) Screenplay: Monte Collins, Elwood Ullman Stars: Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31661,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601\/revisions\/31661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}